Ok so that might sound like a dumb question, but how do computers know? What are they tied into that makes them know when? This year for example we switched 2 weeks earlier than normal.
2007-03-11 09:57:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Updates...that makes sense...that didn't even cross my mind but you're likely right.
2007-03-11 10:05:21 · update #1
It date in the software. This year mine did not change because I had my Auto-Updates off. If, yours was on then it downloaded a Patch to tell it to change time. Learned that here today asking; "Did your computer change time today"?
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2007-03-11 10:03:46 · answer #1 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have Windows XP, click on control panel in the start menu, then click on date and time, then click on time. You'll get a dialogue box. At the bottom, you should have the box for "automatically switch to daylight saving time checked." Ellie
2007-03-11 17:08:54 · answer #2 · answered by Ellie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Older computers will have to download a program to get the time to change because the one they originally have set for it is now incorrect.
2007-03-11 17:04:42 · answer #3 · answered by brunette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the computers are feeded for upto 21st century. the data is stored in such a way that for each and every day and every time is calculated and is stored in the system which comes along with the software.
2007-03-11 17:14:02 · answer #4 · answered by deepak k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the date, i.e. this year it happened march 11 so they know ...and sometimes they're synced with a master clock it depends...
2007-03-11 17:00:56 · answer #5 · answered by Carlo R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a little clock fairy living in each computer that kinda twirls its wand and spreads fairy dust all around when ever its needed and boom!
that's what i know.
2007-03-11 17:01:41 · answer #6 · answered by raze 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋